Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-07-28
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tyrant foot hath newer trod nor bigot
forged chain, for to look back from
our country's glorious natal day or
forward to a glorious, happy and a
prosperous future with regard to purity
of the ballot and free speech. / say
for one we cannot do otherwise. pro
longed applausc.)
II would rather have my right hand
cleave to the roof OF my mouth than to
utter sentiment that would regret,
but say that as people. as nation
or us an inalienablc right which no
man can gainsay or successfully con-
trovert. not for political purposes, and
yet am often led to inquire whittier
are we drifting, not only rs q people
and as q nation, but as country and
as joint School District No. 6. where
we now stand and when we are paying
school teacher this summer S22 y
month to teach the children. little
prattling children. during the hot sum,
mcr weather, how many feet of intes-
tines there are in the human body and
what is best to do for it? Last winter
we paid S34 per month to man who
opened the school with prayer and then
made picture of the digestive organs
ON the black board. And still we
wonder that politics is corrupt!
II tell you that the seeds of vice and
wickedness is often sowed ut school in
the minds of the young by teachers
who are paid large salary to do far
different. What do you think of a man
who would open school house with
prayer and then converse freely about
the alimentary canalP Such n man
would lead life of the deepest infamy
if he had the least encouragement.
so l say, fellow-citzens, that We.
must guard against the influences of
the public schools as nation, for the
people, of the people and by the peo-
pie. Education is often q blessing in
disguise, but we should not pry into
things that the finite mind has no bust
ness with. How much was Calico
ahead in the long run for going out of
his sphere? He was boycotted from
morning till night and died poor. Look
at Demosthenes. Look at Diogenes.
They pried into science, and both of
them was poor providers and have
since died. OF course their names are
frequently used in debating schools,
and some claim that this is big pay
for what they went through, but l say
give me housekeeping horse, the
bright smile of dear ones who are not
related to me in any way, the approval
of the admiring throng, large woolly
dog that will do us tell him, Il mod
est little home and unlimited credit at
the store, and | do not care how much
B. will have to use off from the dia-
meter of a given grindstoue for which
he paid an undivided one-iifteenth.
Il know that this is regarded as n
queer doctrine BY what is called our
more Advanced Thinkers, but say let
every man who pants for fame select
his own style of pant and 90 ahead.
bid him most hearty godspeed and
hope he will do well.
But what makes me mad is for a
man to come TO me and dictate what
shall pant for. This is called intoler'
ance by people who can afford to use
words of that size. Intolerance is {
thing that makes me tired. Whether
it's religious. political or social intoler-
ance, l dislike it very much. People
that think | will enjoy voting for A.;
yaller dog that had been picked .ou
for me, or that | will be tickled to
death to indorso the religious dogmas
! of an ettete monicky with my eyes shet
don't know me. | say. let every man
rely solely on his own thinker, ant
damned be he who first cries hold
; enough! am not Il prOfane man, but
quote tlom a poem in using the above
quotation.
But again. In closing, let me sa,
that we owe it to our common cOuntr,
: to be peaceable citizens and pay on
d taxes without murmuring. The tim
to get in our fine work is on the valua
5 ton, and it is too late to kick afte
Y that Let us cultivate spirit of loft
: patriotism, but believe nothing just t.
oblige others. / used to be n grea
t bel ever in anything that was submitte
4 for my approval. That was VIVA
1t kept me back. Now, if Il man like ia
: Gould says he is not feeling so we'll a
: he did, make him show me his tongue
n I'VE are here Today to celebrate tn
u birthday of American freedom, as
G understand it, and | am here to sa
l. that whatever may be said against on
! refinement and our pork, our style c
C freedom is sought for everywhere.
&c is freedom that will stand any climat
J. and I hear it very highly spoken @
t wherever go.
70 II am here to state that, as boy an
man, / have been a constant user c
y American freedom for over fifty year;
e and can truly say that feel no desir
:? to turn back; also that there VIII be
a grand, free -for-all scutfle for a grease
IS pig on the vacant lot south of til
d church at Z o'clock, after which fire
y works will be served to those who d.
sire to remain"
1t Aud thus did the Fourth of July pas
!? with all its glories in Whalen's Grow
it in the year of our Independence tn
l. 110th.-BM Nye, in New York WortC
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